so tight. i love how newt has revealed himself in the last five years as being a brilliant politician rather than an ideological conservative. the contract with america stuff was pretty clearly a guise.
i wonder how many of our politicians are like this--i mean, could howard dean be a conservative republican as easily as a left-wing voice?
i wouldn't be so quick to say that this is the true newt and what we saw in '94 was a shrewd move.
that being said, i do wonder how events like 9/11 might have changed the views of politicians. i can definitely see how social conservatives might decide to put aside some of their social beliefs because they see a need to effectively deal with the war on terror.
when you see newt on "meet the press" and the like, you can't help but recognize that he has no problem applying his tremendous scheming powers this way or that. i'm not saying that one visage or another is the real newt (a la "the real" btb)--only that the real politician inhabits a world logically prior to political content.
Furthermore, I think it is only called flip-flopping when you change from one popular decision to another. Newt might transcend it for changing from a questionably popular track to one where he talks shit about the majority. But then again, he is speaking at Liberty's graduation this year.
The Three Q Blog, originally dubbed Quabbin Qountry Queries, is named in honor of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. The general Quabbin region was originally the home base for the author, and a place whose trails and massive aquatic presence served as a source of inspiration for the musings herein. We hope to write with the same rebellious spirit as the Quabbin's most famous citizen, Daniel Shays, after whom the stretch of US Hwy 202 that runs along the Quabbin's shore is named.
A rags-to-riches-to-rags military hero from the Revolutionary War, Shays later led a shoddy force of local farmers based out of a local watering hole called Conkey's Tavern against the Massachusetts militia in protest of the state's poll tax. Money was a barrier to entry into politics then, just as it remains today.
They called themselves "The Regulators" and they stood up for Democracy. We call ourselves "The Bloggers" and we must do the same kind of fighting with our words, if not our muskets.
For More Information on the Quabbin Reservoir and Daniel Shays, here are some links.
6 comments:
so tight. i love how newt has revealed himself in the last five years as being a brilliant politician rather than an ideological conservative. the contract with america stuff was pretty clearly a guise.
i wonder how many of our politicians are like this--i mean, could howard dean be a conservative republican as easily as a left-wing voice?
i wouldn't be so quick to say that this is the true newt and what we saw in '94 was a shrewd move.
that being said, i do wonder how events like 9/11 might have changed the views of politicians. i can definitely see how social conservatives might decide to put aside some of their social beliefs because they see a need to effectively deal with the war on terror.
anyway, im with newt, let the mass debating begin
when you see newt on "meet the press" and the like, you can't help but recognize that he has no problem applying his tremendous scheming powers this way or that. i'm not saying that one visage or another is the real newt (a la "the real" btb)--only that the real politician inhabits a world logically prior to political content.
fair point sir...im sorry to have mischaracterized what you said. so why isn't he considered a flip flopper??
how old is bob dole?
even back in the days of "all eyez on me" he was too old to understand the way the game's told. that was more than a decade ago.
Bob Dole? Bob Dole's 83.
Furthermore, I think it is only called flip-flopping when you change from one popular decision to another. Newt might transcend it for changing from a questionably popular track to one where he talks shit about the majority.
But then again, he is speaking at Liberty's graduation this year.
Post a Comment